A review by zoewong
An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris by Georges Perec
"There are people who read while walking, not a lot, but a few."
this short strange little book made me think about what it means to know a place, and how knowing and belonging might be similar/different/connected. it also reminded me that good writers and interesting people pay close attention to the world, even "when nothing happens other than the weather, people, cars, and clouds. (something like Lemony Snicket/Charles Baudelaire's flaneur??)
this was not from the book itself but it was attached in the PDF that I read and I wanted to remember it: "Question your tea spoons" — meaning a call to rediscover the familiar, to pay attention, to "question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us."
this short strange little book made me think about what it means to know a place, and how knowing and belonging might be similar/different/connected. it also reminded me that good writers and interesting people pay close attention to the world, even "when nothing happens other than the weather, people, cars, and clouds. (something like Lemony Snicket/Charles Baudelaire's flaneur??)
this was not from the book itself but it was attached in the PDF that I read and I wanted to remember it: "Question your tea spoons" — meaning a call to rediscover the familiar, to pay attention, to "question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us."